Chapter Seventy-Four: Zhuangzi said, "Only when you die will you live."

On the second day, the city tower opened, and the man who borrowed the house opened the door of the firewood house and reminded the brothers of the Xu family that they could go.

The brother peeked out of the firewood and said, "Thank you, brother." ”

However, the rain was still heavy, and it was moderate to heavy rain, so the brother could only go to the grocery store to buy a tarpaulin first, and then go to the street to buy twelve steamed cakes that had just come out of the pot.

The brother took out a wooden bowl and asked the store for three bowls of hot water, and each person ate a cake to cushion his stomach.

When eating the cakes, the second brother motioned to the two younger brothers to squat at the door with him to eat, and not to stand in the house.

Didn't you see the people who came to buy steamed buns and disliked the taste on their bodies?

The store is kind enough to give hot water, and they don't affect other people's business.

And the rest of the cake was in Xu Youyin's arms, planning to keep it for eating on the road.

Xu Youyin also carried three empty wooden bowls and three empty gourds around his neck.

Xu Laosan is still carrying autumn pears, and the second is carrying his brother's luggage.

The shopkeeper heard three young men discussing the need to hurry without a car, fiddling with the steamer while peeking out at the rain.

I thought: Unless you want to make money and want to go crazy, you will get out of the car in this weather, and there will be no car.

I heard that there was only one car to go to another town in the city tower yesterday, and the coachman was originally from another town, so he had to go home to earn a few copper plates by the way.

The shopkeeper also heard Xu Laoer's sentence that squatting outside to eat would not affect her selling cakes, and suddenly beckoned and shouted: "Young man, yes, I just told you to go, don't leave yet." I see you have empty gourds, and here is hot water, fill them up and go, and keep them for drinking on the road. ”

If you want to talk about Xu Lao Er and Si Lao, I haven't met any good people when I go out this time, and the third child has a warehouse that is not bad, and he has never been beaten and scolded when he is working.

So the eldest lady said a cold word, and moved the two brothers enough: "Thank you, auntie, thank you." ”

After filling the gourd with water, the brothers came to the castle tower and only glanced at it, and there was indeed no cart, and they did not think to wait any longer, and did not hesitate to hand over the road to the city guard.

Once this stamp is stamped, their road guide can no longer return to the county seat, but can only go all the way.

The three brothers walked among the mountains.

Just look at this brother walking side by side, they have the same oilcloth on their heads, sandwiching the third child carrying the pear in the middle, and the second and fourth children pulling the oilcloth on both sides.

Along the way, there was not even a ghost.

This walk was roughly more than five hours (11 hours), with only three short stops in between.

The so-called rest is to sit on the ground with a straw mat on the side of the road, Xu Laosan changed from carrying a sack to holding in his arms for a while, and Xu Lao 2 and 4 also changed their arms to stretch the tarpaulin and drink hot water.

But the question is, it's a night's walk to the nearest village, where do they stay at night?

Not to mention that the ancient village setting is also inhumane.

This old man is complaining: You are scattered, no, either there is no village, or they are next to each other.

The brother decided to go further into the mountain, and find a cave in the mountain while he could still see a little bit of the way.

The brothers were not blindly looking for a place to enter the mountain, they chose to go up the mountain from the shady slope, wanting to walk all the way to see if there was any wild ginger.

How to find wild ginger, where to love this thing, or the eldest brother Xu Youtian told the younger brothers.

Not to mention, according to the method taught by the eldest brother, they really found wild ginger, and after a while, they boiled hot soup and drank it warmly.

And I was lucky, and I walked into the mountain and found a small cave.

It's small, just enough for a small firemaker to sit side by side, but it's pretty good.

Xu Youcang put the bag and luggage on the straw mat and went outside to break some branches that were as dry as possible.

When you go out, you are not allowed to bring knives in and out of the city gate, not even knives, such as adding a new kitchen knife at home, you must also open a certificate to buy, and you must write clearly where to buy it, where to use it, in addition to this distance There are swords and other things on the body that are found, and they will be arrested immediately, so Xu Youcang must be broken with his bare hands.

Fortunately, in addition to the knives, the fire fold and the medicine are allowed to be brought.

At this time, Xu Lao Er took out a kind of medicinal powder and sprinkled it around the hole, which was the plant whose name Mrs. Xu and the family members in the live broadcast room couldn't explain clearly.

That plant is the anti-snake powder that went up the mountain to live broadcast, why did such a big poisonous snake be frightened back when the powder burned, so that Xu Tianxin could use a shoe awl to pierce the vital hand? It's that it's medicinal.

It is called quinoa, which is one of the three most poisonous plants in the local area, it is said that cattle and sheep cannot walk five steps after eating it, and fierce beasts and poisonous snakes also walk around when they see this thing.

And this cold knowledge is still taught to his younger brothers by Xu Youtian, a young man in the prime of Shili and Eight Villages.

This fourth Xu Youyin was smashing wild ginger juice with a stone and spilling it in the empty bowl, and the third child Youcang also hugged back the tree branch and lit a fire.

In a short time three loaves were laid on the firewood, and wet clothes and straw sandals were baked around the fire.

And the three brothers of the Xu family really took advantage of the fact that no one on the mountain took off their clothes, found a place where there was no big tree to cover them, and was watered by the rain, and let the rain wash their bodies.

From time to time, I can still hear my brother talking and laughing.

Because the second child found a plant called an arrow hoop in the bath, what is it? Zongye leaves.

Zongzi leaves are not afraid of being watered by the rain, he plans to take advantage of the rest tonight to put on two Zongye hats for himself and the fourth child, so that he doesn't have to be so troublesome to hide from the rain with the oilcloth with the third child, and the third child can wrap the autumn pear in the oilcloth by himself.

"Second brother and third brother, these two fish are still alive."

That can't be eaten either.

This night the brothers sat bare-shouldered side by side in the hole, taking a sip of wild ginger water and a mouthful of baked cakes, and watching the fish eat dinner.

On the second day, I went early in the morning, and I didn't see the village until evening, and I didn't dare to sleep after spending fifteen copper plates to buy a few dry foods. The family seemed to be afraid that they would steal things, and they always watched them sneaky.

In fact, they were also afraid that this clan village would murder them, and they had more than ten taels of silver on them.

Early on the morning of the third day, the day was a little clearer, and I could finally feel a ray of sunshine when I couldn't see the warmth of the sun.

"Huh? Uncle, are you going to Helan Town? The fourth Xu Youyin jumped and waved to the driver and shouted.

Their brother calculated the account, and suddenly figured out that if they encountered a bicycle car, they still had to take it, otherwise they would have to buy dry food and borrow five copper plates for staying at the villager's house at night, which didn't seem to be very cost-effective. One more day of delay, spending a lot of copper plates, and suffering from sin.

The car was driven by servants, an old man and a young man, and a little woman.

The woman in the car suddenly vomited when Xu Youcang walked over.

The old man immediately shook his whip and said, "Don't pull your feet, don't pull your feet, I'm sorry, my daughter-in-law here can't smell you when she is pregnant." ”

Xu Youcang sniffed his armpits: Do you still smell after taking a shower?

He only came with a log on his back, and he hadn't gone down the sinus canal yet.

If the second brother and younger brother come over, what kind of smoke will they have to make, forget it.

The second brother grabbed the fourth child and hurriedly stood away: "It's time for our brothers to be sorry, let your daughter-in-law vomit, uncle, let's go." ”

After the mule cart departed, the brothers looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, and alas, let's go on foot.

I thought that if I was greedy for darkness today, I would be able to see the castle tower of my town in the middle of the night, but I didn't want to see four figures holding butcher knives from the hill on the side of the road in the evening.

The four of them stood in front of the Xu family's brothers, held the knife and said, "Brothers, borrow some money." ”

Xu Lao Er: "...... We don't know each other, do we? Why did you borrow money? ”

"Then let me repeat, I drove this road, understand?"

The fourth brother looked at the second brother and said, "He wants to buy road money." ”

The leader suddenly burst out: "Shao Te's mother pretends to be stupid to Lao Tzu, and then chirps crookedly to cut your brains and fart!" ”

Then the other servants aimed their knives at the necks of the Xu brothers, and they also stretched out their feet to aim at the leg sockets and kicked down: "Where's the money?" Money! ”

Xu Lao Er knelt on the ground, and could only let others rummage through the blanket hanging around his neck.

His three taels of wages and one or four dollars brought by his mother were all turned out.

The fourth thought to himself:

He also said this morning that the second brother can't put the money in the bag.

But the second brother said that it is safest to put it there and turn it out at any time.

When he thought about it, he didn't even have a ghost along the way, so he didn't persuade again. But I didn't expect to walk a few hours further into the town and meet evil ghosts.

And Xu Laosan was pinned with a knife, and the other two people quickly turned over his waist and turned out six taels of broken silver.

The fourth child closed his eyes and thought to himself:

What else did his third brother say this morning, the money must be put in his waist, the waist pole is hard, and he is full of confidence, and he pats his waist and smiles brightly.

This time it's the end of the calf.

The fourth child wondered, obviously he was not allowed to bring knives, where did these robbers get their knives, and were the officials who inspected the city tower blind?

The fourth Xu Youyin was very glad that he hid the silver money in the pear bag.

But before they could rejoice a while, the fish was snatched by the four robbers, and the duffel rolls were dragged away and thrown everywhere, and the water hyacinth of his drinking water was kicked to pieces, and the wooden bowl of their brother was thrown into the ditch by the roadside.

The most infuriating thing is that he also opened the pear bag and dropped out his three hanging coins.

I can't keep the last bit of money.

The four robbers scolded and picked up the three strings of copper plates and said, "Mother, it's a few poor ghosts."

The three brothers of the Xu family looked at the big knife, the four bright big knives.

Before going out, my mother said that even if you don't earn any money, you must come back alive.

Because your eldest brother is gone, if your brother has another three long and two short, let my mother rely on someone in the future, our family will be completely dispersed.

The three brothers clenched their fists, controlling themselves to endure, after all, they didn't even have a stick.

Just when the leader was gesturing with a knife, he stepped on the broken pear, and said that he thought it was something valuable, but when he didn't expect it to be this broken thing, the third Xu Youcang suddenly leaned back to avoid the machete pinned to his neck, and then kicked down the robber, and at the same time stretched out his arm to block the machete of the other robber, clamped the other party's wrist with a squeaky nest to remove the knife, and also carried the person and threw it into the roadside trench: "Hold the grass, your ancestor!" ”

Who dare to rob money, and dare to crush his pears.

Xu Lao Er and Lao Si also broke out at the same time, and the two of them rushed towards the leading robber with the same goal.

The Xu brothers thought to themselves:

Our brothers take turns carrying the autumn pears all the way, do you dare to kick me to pieces?

Still scolding us for being poor ghosts?

That's all the money their brother had earned by nearly losing his life.

Robbing them, don't you still dislike the lack of money!

And in the next scene, the four robbers just want to get rich, but the Xu brothers are playing with their lives.

And there was only one back and forth, and the horizontal one was afraid of dying, and the second and fourth children screwed the leading robber leader in their arms.

As long as the second child pushes a little harder, the opponent's head can fall off.

He had the impulse to unscrew it, and daring to rob them of their money was to kill them.

It's time to die, so it's up to you to see who dies first.

And the fourth brother pulled out his hand and picked up a large knife with his third brother to chase after the two people who were about to run.

Why are there two of them, obviously there are four of them, isn't there another one who can't get up in the trench, and was thrown by Xu Youcang and thrown on a rock.

The two brothers brandished large knives to catch up with the two and trampled under their feet.

"Brother, we were wrong, we really just ate a mouthful, don't dare anymore."

The two knelt down with a pop.

Who are these four, if Mrs. Xu is there, she can recognize them, isn't this a second-rate son who follows Wang Laoba? It has to be a well-known second-rate son in town.

Those who take money to help people fight and fight.

On the day of fishing, they entered Wangjiagou and were chased by the old ladies of Erdaohe.

At this time, he took the fragmentation knife and drilled the mountain to rob the road.

Xu Youcang smiled gloomily, remembering what his eldest brother taught, to treat others in the way of others: "This road was opened by your father and me, choose it yourself, either die, or leave me the money to buy the road." ”

Xu Youyin reminded: "Third brother, what did they mean when they said that they were a few poor ghosts before?" ”

So this evening, the three brothers of the Xu family also rescued the old man's family who didn't pull them in the car before.

gave the four people the money they had robbed the old man's family.

The daughter-in-law was so frightened that she was bleeding, and when the Xu brothers arrived, the family was tied to a big tree.

And the three brothers of the Xu family robbed the robbers of seven and a half taels of silver.

Isn't it a holiday today?,It's Saturday again.,I went out to eat with the whole family after the update in the afternoon.,And drank too much.,Come back and sleep until half past eight and almost nine o'clock.,Daze took the phone to see everyone's message and wanted me to update again.,I thought about it.,Get up and write.。 In fact, I can catch up with the addition, but I know in my heart the direction of the story, it is useless to write one or two thousand words, everyone is still in a hurry after reading it, and I still can't finish writing this paragraph. So I've been writing until now it's one o'clock forty in the second half of the night, and this chapter is 3600 words equal to two small chapters, and I hope that the waiting book friends will not be disappointed in their hearts, I have worked hard. If you are disappointed, I will feel that I have worked hard in vain. I don't know what the quality of this chapter is, but I tried my best.

It's supposed to be 521 now, and I wish you all a great weekend.

(End of chapter)